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I'm glad they linked to the 1898 "Go #### yourself." Sometimes the classics really do set the standard for our current achievements. Earl Weaver's "Terry Crowley's lucky he's in ####### baseball, for Chrissakes" sets a high bar, but so it should be.

My favorite lip-reading moment that I actually saw (on tv) was Andy Pettitte's reaction to the Pujols homer off Lidge in the 2005 NLCS. No audio but the "OH MY GOD" was clearly visible. For a couple months afterwards, my roommate and I mouthed that to each other as our mutual reaction to almost anything remarkable.

I gotta confess, I lip read at like a third-grade level. I could only make out about one or two of those (it was still a good read, though I probably would have found it more enjoyable if each gif was close captioned for the lip-reading impaired).

The greatest lip reading moment ever was Vin Scully during Game Six of the 1985 NLCS. I don't remember it precisely but it was something on the order of "Lasorda is saying 'do I walk him or do I pitch to that so and so". He pitched to the so and so and Clark hit one about 12 miles.

I've heard an unaired radio clip of Weaver on the Orioles pregame show. Apparently the producers decided to, um, "get his goat" by having people call in and ask him questions totally unrelated to baseball. He, um, did not take this well. I'm sure this clip can be found somewhere on the Internets. As yells go, it's not Bill O'Reilly \"#### IT WE'RE DOING THIS LIVE" or Buddy Rich, but it's still goodstuffs.

That's what #13 is referring to and the story I heard was that Weaver was in on it. It was a pregame segment that wasn't going to be aired because of a rain out and Weaver and the host decided to have fun telling Alice to hustle her ass at some bars.

Both Tom Marr and Weaver are trying hard not to crack up during Manager's Corner (needless to day, NSFW without headphones). It's a planned gag, but OTOH it probably registers Weaver's opinion of Don Stanhouse and Terry Crowley accurately.

I was looking for a transcript of the Weaver gag, and I found this lovely piece of work reportedly said by Goose Gossage:

"Everybody, the way they boo ####### Griffey and everybody else. And you #############, all you cocksuckers with a ####### pen , and a ####### tape recorder, you can turn it on and take it upstairs to the fat man! Ok? Cause I'm ####### sick of this ####### ####! The negative ####### bullshit, you got it? Everything that you guys read, write, these ############# read, these dumb ####### in the seats! Yeah, you turn it on. Turn it on you crazy ####. Yeah, they read everything that you ####### write. And we hear the same ####### lines, you know what I mean? ####### negative #############. No wonder you're ####### carrying a pad and a ####### paper around. You ain't worth the ####### #### to do anything else. You #############!"

I've never heard of that one before.

I don't think that the Todd Stottlemyre rant gets enough respect. The Weaver, Elia, and Lasorda's rants about Kingman's performance and Kurt Bevacqua always get mentioned in discussions like this, but Stottlemyre having his voice crack while repeatedly yelling "I'm pissed!" and "I lost my ####### cool!" as a reporter responds "No! No! No!" in a scared tone to Todd's rhetorical questions is some great material.

It's real in the sense that Earl actually said those things. But it was intended as a joke and was not meant to be (nor was it) aired.

Well, it wasn't aired on Manager's Corner. But it was (mistakenly) aired on a YES broadcast of an O's-Yanks game in 2008 when the announcers started discussing Terry Crowley as the O's hitting coach. There were many apologies for that.

To coin a Bizarro saying, all those gifs are worthless without audio. It's kind of dumb, anyway. They all look remarkably alike. That's what the ubiquitous use of the word ####, in all his majestic permutations, has done. Reduced all rants to the same unenterprising vanilla thing. Set it to rap/hip-hop and stick a fork in it.

All I know is people are drunk with use of that word--drunker than a poet on pay day. And all of it tiresomely uninteresting. But don't listen to me. Lie, cheat, steal, and listen to heavy metal music. See if I care. [Are-a-gano???]

I want to show people this whenever I hear or read something about Deadwood's profanity being "anachronistic". The Special Instructions are from 1898, and Deadwood was set in 1876, a mere 22 years earlier. And indeed, the tirades in the Special Instructions have a distinct Deadwood feel to them (particularly the ubiquitous "You cøcksucker!"

I don't know why people think they didn't use just as much profanity in the past as we do today. The f-word's earliest attestation is 1475, for crying out loud!

That's not my objection. My complaint is more along the lines of Milhouse's wrt "jiminy jillikers". #### is used so promiscuously and indiscriminately that it's come to lose all meaning. It's like a placeholder waiting for an original thought and expression that never comes.